Amy was eating a pizza, and the pizza is cut into 8 pieces. Because this is mathematics, and mathematics is exact, we will say that eating a1/8 of a pizza takes exactly 2 minutes. Now, Amy starts eating, but 2 minutes later, Barney comes, and he wants pizza too. So, they both eat some more […]

Heather, Ankit, Margaret, Kareem and Roger are each reading the same book for a school book report. The 12 chapters of the book are each 11 pages long. Clues: Heather planned to read half the book in 2 days. Now she’s halfway towards that goal. Ankit has read 4 chapters so far. Margaret has read

Joe Schmo has an appointment in Kalamazoo at 2:00 pm. If he leaves home and travels at 15 miles per hour, he will arrive at 1:00 pm; if he travels at 10 miles per hour, he will not arrive until 3:00 pm. How far is it from his home to his appointment in Kalamazoo? Answer60

Frogger the magic frog can jump 10 feet using his magical magic jump, but his magic loses its power by a half each time, so his next jump only goes as far as 5 feet. The next jump will take him 2.5 feet, and so on. How many jumps does it take to make it

There is a cage at the zoo that contains both peacocks and pigs. If there is a total of 30 eyes and 44 feet, how many of each are there in the cage? Answer7 pigs8 peacocks

Tobin is thinking of joining a video club. He received this offer in the mail:“Buy 7 videos for just 1 penny apiece! (You must follow either Plan A or Plan B.)Plan A: Buy 2 more videos for $6.95 each with your initial order. Then buy only 3 more videos over the next 3 years at

If it takes a man one hour to dig a hole two metres long, two metres wide, and two metres deep, how long would it take the same man to dig a hole four metres long, four metres wide, and four metres deep, assuming he digs at the same rate of speed? AnswerEight hours. It

James was supposed to buy 4 hamburgers and 3 pops for $14.50. Instead, he bought 3 hamburgers and 4 pops for $13.50. What was the price of a single hamburger and a single pop? AnswerOne hamburger cost $2.50 and one pop cost $1.50.

Adoontourious has an antique cuckoo clock. It’s a lovely clock, but it runs too slowly; it loses 9 minutes of time every hour. Mike visits his friend Adoontourious one day, and notices that the cuckoo clock is exactly on time at noon on Tuesday.When is the next time Adoontourious’ clock will be exactly on time?

The Timberland Tigers coach gave his 14 players jerseys numbered 0 to 13. He then told them to stand in numerical order from 0 to 13 in a circle, and he gave the ball to the player wearing the number 0. He told them to pass it to the person 3 numbers ahead of them.

You are filling various lengths of tubes with marbles. A yellow marble is 19 mm wide and a green marble is 21 mm wide. How many marbles of each colour will exactly fill a tube that is 562 mm long? Answer13 yellow and 15 green marbles. 1319=247 1521=315247+315=562

A 27″ x 27″ square metal plate needs to be fixed by a carpenter onto a wooden board. The carpenter uses nails all along the edges of the square such that there are 28 nails on each side of the square. Each nail is at the same distance from the neighbouring nails. How many nails

Karin has two pencils. One is a good one, and the other is a cheap one. The good pencil cost $1.00 more than the cheap one. Karin spent $1.10 for both pencils. How much did her cheap pencil cost? AnswerFive cents. The expensive pencil cost $1.05. You may have thought the answer was 10 cents,

Both Tom and Tina have some money. Because it is a hot day, they decide to buy an ice cream for each of them. But then they realize they both don’t have enough money. Tom needs 24 cents more for his ice cream, and Tina needs two cents more to buy one. Now they decide

At midnight on Sunday, December 31st, Professor Lawrence set two of her analog clocks to the correct time. One of her clocks gains one minute every hour and the other loses two minutes every hour. When will the clocks next show the same time as each other? When will the clocks both show the correct